Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-05
W0MAN'S GOSSIP.
What Eleanor Kirk has TO say About
Persons and Things
BROOKLYN, n. Y, March :

bhoOhL1N, ~. L e, Nlditu
DEAR EDITOR: The news of the pass
1 ing Of Senator Pitts bill in the legisla
ture has surprised the most hopeful of
the woman's suffrage advocates. A Lead
| er of the movement in commenting upon
! d World editorial that votes in municipal
! elections may lead to complete enfrauch
/ isement, said laugbingly that it made
/ her about as wrdthtuI as the use of the
word pauper in the same paper mas
made the disabled veterans OF our civil
| war The idea that it is necessary for
| woma1 to be enfTanchised has always
| hlied NE with Indignation. | have paid
taxes on a large property ever since |
was twelty three wears old, she went on
| Il have kept my own accounts, collected
| my rents and taxation without represent
alton is Just as much tyranny for a
woman as 1t is for a man. If 1t is not,
/ why not: MY taxes had TO be paid reg
uiaiiy, or | was amen abIe 10 u law which
| [ b al no hand in making, and which
| had Us good right 10 vote for OF against
rs nv nearest masculine HeighbOr, who
happened to be an ignorant Irishman, al
/ though An alderman"
| 1t Is no wonder that the ladies who
have been collecting funds for the en-
| dOwment of some institution for the poor
10 celebrate the queens jubilee. should
be dlSheartened and angry at the sug>
gestion which amounts to a command
from her majesty that part of the mon
ey shall be spent in the erection Of an
equestrian statue of the Prince ConsOrt
\ friend commenting upon the new
freak, said that IN visiting one Of The
Oxford colleges recently, she noticed in
the yestibule life size statue swalhed
| from head 10 heels, and naturally felt some
curiosity to know what it could be. She
was informed that it was a statue of the
PRICE Consort, ana hidden from public
view because the Queen had made the
subject" SO obnoxious by insisting that
every Institution should do honor 10 his
memory in this way. We could not re
| fuse to have it, they said, and we
| couldn't give it away, out we could tie il
up and we did" If the prince is aware
of the persistence with which her mai
esty foiSts him upon an unwilling public,
he cannot be a particularly happy deni-
zen of the Shining Shore, for Albert was
modest and Bindhearled whatever else be
Was not
1t is rumored now that Patti has several
times been in Danger Of her life from
crauks who have been driven wild by her
beauty auc success. At one time in New
Orleans as she was about to enter her
carriage after metecric performance.
she was selected as a target for a mad
mans bullet, but escaped unhurt as she
always has. Patti declares that this is
her farewell tour, but 1t is i'm
possible to credit this statement, for her
voice is lovelier than ever; "a bird that
can sing. and won't sing should be made
TO sing"
A correspondent asks if Gao furnish
a receipt for ienter French rolls with
brittle crust. know what size means,
and also know from experience that it
takes considerable practice to make them
successfully. One must have warm rich
milk TO begin with. The flour must be the
whitest and best procurabIe To a quart
of sifted -four | add generous halt cup
Of sweet butter. a little more than halt
of a Fleischman's yeast cake dissolved D
warm milk, and a great spoonful of
powdered sugar This dough requires
considerable kneadiug. Sci. to rise in
warm place. In the morning re>mould.
adding the whites of two eggs beaten to
froth Make into oblong rolls, let them
rise again and bake in quick oven.
ELEANOR KIRK.